How greed nearly brought Tembisa Hospital to its knees

A DECLINE in moral integrity, fueled by greed and financial influence are among the factors leading to the "dire" situation at Tembisa Hospital where the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) found that more than R2 billion was looted through corruption and fraud.

- THOBEKA NGEMA

"When we allow greed, ambitions of greed and allow ourselves to be susceptible to financial influences, it really leads to a situation of not just us oppressing ourselves in terms of ceding to this immorality, but has a great impact on the patients and the communities and that in itself is such a moral abomination.

"So, not only are these individuals oppressing themselves with their own immorality and the way that they are actually choosing to behave, but they are also causing incredible damage to the entire health care system because as one hospital falls, another falls and another under the same weight of corruption," said occupational therapist Dr Fatima Hendricks.